Texture Mapping Hardware Accelerator Based on Double Buffer Architecture

ABSTRACT

The disclosure belongs to the technical field of Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) chip design, and particularly relates to a texture mapping hardware accelerator based on a double Buffer architecture. The texture mapping hardware accelerator includes an address calculation unit configured for calculating according to different texture address requests to obtain an address for accessing texel cache, a texel cache unit configured to obtain texels of corresponding cache lines from memory according to different request addresses, and a data calculation unit configured to carry out filtering processing according to different isotropic and anisotropic filtering modes and pixel processing for border_color and swizzle operation. With double Buffers, the calculation efficiency of texture index addresses may be improved, and when two layers of data need to be calculated at the same time, calculation may be started in parallel at the same time. When one enabled layer of data needs to be calculated, texels are indexed in parallel in an odd-even mode to guarantee data parallel calculation, so that the indexing time of the texel data is shortened, and the texel calculation efficiency is improved.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to Chinese Application No.201910495890.0, filed on Jun. 10, 2019, and entitled “Texture mappinghardware accelerator based on double Buffer architecture”, thedisclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The disclosure relates to the technical field of Graphic Processing Unit(GPU) chip design, in particular to a texture mapping hardwareaccelerator based on a double Buffer architecture.

BACKGROUND

Texture mapping operation is widely applied to GPU, may be used as acomputing unit in the general computing field of General Purpose GPU(GPGPU), and may also be used as an executor of a graphic renderingpipeline on texture data fetch and sample. The performance of a texturemapping unit directly affects the internal execution efficiency of agraphics processor, and directly affects the speed of data lookup andtransfer in the general computing field, so that the design of theefficient texture mapping unit is particularly critical in GPU design.

SUMMARY

The disclosure aims at providing a texture mapping hardware acceleratorbased on a double Buffer architecture, so as to solve the problem thatthe speed of data Lookup and transfer is directly affected in thegeneral computing field due to the fact that the internal executionefficiency of a graphic processor is poor in the background technology.

In order to achieve the purpose, the disclosure provides the followingtechnical scheme: the texture mapping hardware accelerator based on thedual Buffer architecture includes an Image U0 unit, an LOD U1 unit, aCoordinateU2 unit, a Coordinate controller U3 unit and an addresscontroller U4 unit.

The Image U0 unit is configured to store basic information of image andstore mode, width, height, depth, border, inte_format, format, type andbase of the corresponding image by taking target and different maplayers as addresses when mipmap texture is enabled; and store mode,width, height, depth, border, inte_format, format, type and base valuesof the corresponding layer by taking target and different layers asaddresses when layers are enabled, subdivide one address of a mipmaplayer into six sub-addresses representing different face information of0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 when cubemap is enabled. When the layers are enabledwithout information of the map layers, the mode, width, height, depth,border, inte_format, format and type of different layers are the sameand the base is different; when the layers are enabled and the maplayers are enabled, mode, width, height, depth, border, inte_format,format and type are the same and base is different; and registerconfiguration under 1D, 2D, 3D, rectangle, cubemap, 1D_ARRAY, 2D_ARRAY,cubemap_array, 2D_multisample, 2D_multisample, and 2D_multisample_arraymodes is supported.

The LOD U1 unit is configured to complete level value calculation underdifferent filtering modes and obtain an address for accessing the imageunit in combination with accessing a target address; before the levelvalue calculation, first, the basic information of the image needs to beobtained as a reference for the subsequent level calculation by takingthe target and base_level value as level0 for reading the image unit,then the calculation of the level value takes into account twosituations: when lod is enabled, if the image is in layer mode, at thetime, the width and height information of the different layers areequal, regardless of the filtering mode being mag_filter or min_filter,the level value closest to the base_level direction is taken as level0for reading offset of the information of image, while the filter_typesize matches the requested filter size; when lod is enabled, if image isin mipmap mode, at the time, the width, height and depth of differentlayers are not equal, consider mag_filter to take value closest tobase_level for reading offset of the information of image in near modeand linear mode, consider near, linear, near_mipmap_near,linear_mipmap_near to take the value least close to base_level forreading offset of image in min_filter mode, while filter_type matchesthe requested filtering mode, consider min_filter to take the twoadjacent layers for reading the offset of the information of image innear_mipmap_linear and linear_mipmap_linear modes, ratio_l is thefractional part of the lod value minus the level value, at the moment,the integer part of lod is level0, level0 plus 1 is level1, if the lodvalue is min_lod, at the moment, level0 is the same as level1, and thusfiter_type is filtering of near_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near,respectively; similarly, when the partial derivative is enabled as thelod, according to the primitive types primitive, dux, duy, dvx, dvy,dwx, dwy, delt_x and delt_y passed from raster, two conditions includingpolygon/point and line are available, the lod of polygon/point and lineis obtained through calculation respectively, if the image is in thelayer mode, at the moment, the width and height information of thedifferent layers are equal, no matter the filtering mode is mag_filteror min_filter, one level value closest to the base_level direction istaken as level0 for reading the offset of the information of image, andthe filter_type size matches the requested filtering size; if the imageis in mipmap mode, at the time, the width, height and depth of thedifferent layers are not equal, consider mag_filter to take the valueclosest to base_level for reading the offset of the information of imagein near mode and linear mode, consider near, linear, near_mipmap_nearand linear_mipmap_near to take the value least close to base_level forreading the offset of the information of image in min_filter mode, whilefilter_type matches the requested filtering mode, consider min_filter totake the two adjacent layers for reading the offset of the informationof image in near_mipmap_linear, linear_mipmap_linear modes, and ratio_lis the fractional part of the lod value minus the level value, at themoment, the integer part lod is level0, level0 plus 1 is level1, if thelod value is min_lod, then level0 is the same as level1, so fiter_typeis taken for filtering of near_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near. Iflevel0 and level1 are enabled, the trilinear filtering mode is realized,the following trilinear filtering modes are available: trilinearisotropic (near_mipmap_linear, line_mipmap_linear), trilinearanisotropic; if only level0 is valid, only the following filtering modesare available: point isotropic (near, near_mipmap_near), bilinearisotropic (linear, linear_mipmap_near), bilinear anisotropic.

The CoordinateU2 unit is configured to complete coordinate conversionand address conversion of s, t, r and q in the fetch and sampler modes;when cubemap_array is enabled, the Q coordinate at the moment is not 0and represents the layer row number, s, t and r represent the sizes inthe x, y and z directions respectively, and the s and t coordinates inthe plane coordinates are obtained through the mapping relation; whenthe rectangle mode is enabled, the s and t coordinates at the moment donot need to be subjected to unnormalization processing; if thecoordinates s, t and r exceed respective expression ranges, thecoordinates are constrained by adopting different wrap modes; whenlevel0 and the level1 are enabled, the respective width, height anddepth values of level0 and the level1 are obtained from the image unit,the respective width, height and depth values are multiplied with s, tand r to obtain the unnormalized texture coordinates u0, v0, w0 and u1,v1, w1, and when only the level0 is valid, the width, height and depthvalues of the level0 are obtained from the image unit, the width, heightand depth values are multiplied with normalization s, t and r to obtainthe unnormalized texture coordinates u0, v0 and w0; at the moment,ratio_u0, ratio_v0, ratio_w0 are fractional parts of u0, v0, w0,respectively, ratio_ul, ratio_vl, ratio_wl are fractional parts of ul,vl, wl, respectively, inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0 are integer parts of u0,v0, w0, respectively, inte_ul, inte_vl, inte_wl are integer parts of ul,vl, wl, respectively; when wrap operation is performed, if the bordevalue in the image content has a value, and the address has overflowedat the moment, disable requests a texel at the moment, and theborder_color value is enabled as input of the final pixel stage.

The coordinate controller U3 unit is configured to when level O andlevel1 are enabled, filter_type is point mode, and mode is ID, datawritten into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written intocoordinate bufferul is inte_ul; when mode is 2D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferv0 is inte_v0; data written into coordinate bufferul is inte_ul,and the integer part written into coordinate buffervl is inte_vl; whenthe mode is 3D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, datawritten into coordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0, data written intocoordinate bufferw0 is inte_w0, data written into coordinate bufferul isinte_ul, data written into coordinate buffervl is inte_vl, and datawritten into coordinatewl is inte_wl; when filter_type is linear modeand mode is 1D, data written into coordinate bufferul is inte_ul, anddata written into coordinate bufferul is inte_u1+1; data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0+1; when the mode is 2D, data written to coordinatebufferu0 and coordinate bufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0), (inte_u0+1,inte_v0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1) in sequence; datawritten into coordinate bufferul and coordinate buffervl are (inte_ul,inte_vl), (inte_ul+1, inte_vl), (inte_ul, inte_vl+1), (inte_ul+1,inte_vl+1) in sequence; when mode is 3D, data written into coordinatebufferu0, coordinate bufferv0 and coordinate bufferw0 are (inte_u0,inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1,inte_w0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1, inte_w0),(inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0+1),(in_u0+1, inte_v0, inte_w0+1), (inte_u0,inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1), and(inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1, inte_u0+1) in sequence; data written intocoordinate bufferu1, coordinate bufferv1, coordinate bufferw1 are(inte_u1, inte_v1, inte_w1), (inte_u1+1, inte_v1, inte_w1), (inte_u1,inte_v1+1, inte_w1), (inte_u1+1, inte_v1+1, inte_w1), (inte_u1, inte_v1,inte_w1+1), (inte_u1+1, inte_v1, inte_w1+1), (inte_u1, inte_v1+1,inte_w1+1), and (inte_u1+1, inte_v1+1, inte_w1+1); when level0 isenabled, filter_type is point mode, and mode is 1D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0; when mode is 2D, data written into thecoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into the coordinatebufferv0 is inte_v0; when mode is 3D, data written into the coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0, data written into the coordinate bufferv0 isinte_v0, and data written into the coordinate bufferw0 is inte_w0; whenfilter_type is linear mode and mode is 1 D, data written into coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinate bufferu0 isinte_u0+1; when mode is 2D, data written to coordinate bufferu0 andcoordinate bufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0),(inte_u0, inte_v0+1), and (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1) in sequence; when modeis 3D, data written into coordinate bufferu0, coordinate bufferv0 andcoordinate bufferw0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1,inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0+1), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0,inte_w0+1), (in_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0+1), and (in_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1) in sequence.

The address controller U4 unit is configured to firstly completecalculation from texture coordinates to texture offset addresses; whenlevel0 is valid, mode is 1D, the offset when the address calculation hasno overflow is size*u0; mode is 2D, and the offset when addresscalculation has no overflow is size*(width0*u0+v0); mode is 3D, theoffset when address calculation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0; the address for final access totexel cache is base0+offset; Then the number of addresses underdifferent inte_format conditions is obtained according to the alignmentmode of the end of the offset and a 4-byte, and the end data are storedin the offset0 buffer; due to the fact that level1 is invalid, whentexel cache is requested, according to a double-buffer operation mode,the odd number of addresses request the address of the texel cache toaccess the cache 0, the even number of addresses request the address oftexel cache to access the cache1, and thus parallel access of theaddresses is achieved; when level0 and level1 are both effective, modeis 1 D, the offset when address calculation has no overflow issize*u0,sizeu1; mode is 2D, and the offset when address calculation hasno overflow is size*(width0*u0+v0),size*(width)*u1+v1); mode is 3D, theoffset when address computation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0,size*(width1*u1+v1)+w1*width1*height1;the address for final access to texel cache is base0+level0 offset andbase1+level1 offset. At the moment, cache0 and cachel are requested inparallel.

Optionally, the LOD U1 unit includes two directly connected caches, andindexes of cache lines where different texels are located and store andreplace operations of the cache lines are completed; and when level0 andlevel1 are valid at the same time, read operation requests for cache0and cache1 are completed in parallel, and when only level0 is valid, oddcache line is stored in cache0 and even cache line is stored in cache1.

Optionally, the CoordinateU2 unit includes a data controllerU0 unit, afilterU1 unit and a pixel unit U2.

The data controllerU0 unit is configured to complete a splicing task ofdata from a cache line in combination with off0 and off1 according todifferent inte_formats when level0 and level1 are valid at the same timeto obtain texture data corresponding to the texture address, write therespective data into data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, andstore the data of the respective level at the data buffer0 and the databuffer) respectively; when only level0 is valid, in the same way, dataof respective cache lines are read out from cache0 and cachetrespectively, odd data and even data are obtained according to differentinte_format and off0, the odd data and the even data are written intodata buffer0 and data buffer) in a double mode, and at the moment, texeldata of the same level are stored in data buffer0 and data buffer1.

The filterU1 unit is configured to firstly complete interceptionoperation, intercept r, g, b and a values with different bit widths fordifferent inte_formats, and then perform filtering calculation in anindependent mode, and the interception method of the bit widths isperformed according to different inte_formats; when both level0 andlevel1 are effective, the following filtering modes of filter_type areavailable: NAF (non-anisotropic) (near_mipmap_linear isotropic, linearmipmap_linear isotropic), BAF (bilinear-anisotropic) (invalid), TAF(trilinear-anisotropic), and the following filtering modes offilter_type are available when level O is valid and level1 is invalid:NAF (non-anisotropic) (near, near_mipmap_near, linear_mipmap_near), BAF(bilinear anisotropic), and TAF (trilinear-anisotropic) (invalid); whenlevel0 and level1 are both valid and filter_type is TAF(near_mipmap_linear), whether mode is 1 D, 2D and 3D, data0 and data1are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, and thefiltering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_1)+data1*ratio_1; if the filteringmode is TAF (line_mipmap_linear) and mode is 1 D, first two data areread from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, respectively,data0, datal and data2, data3, the intermediate result of filtering isdata0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0,data1*(1.0-ratio_ul)+data3*ratio_ul, and the final result of thefiltering is(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+(data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_l)+(data11.0-ratio_ul)+(datanatio_ul)*ratio_l;When mode is 2D, data0, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6 anddata7 are sequentially read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at thesame time, and the intermediate result of filtering is obtained throughthe first four data and the first four data are data0, data2, data4 anddata6: data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0,data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data6*ratio_u1; the intermediate result offiltering is then obtained through the last four data: data1, data3,data5, data7: data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+datanatio_u0,data5*(1.0-ratio_ul)+data7*ratio_ul, and finally the final results oflevel0 and levell are obtained:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+datanatio_unatio_v0,(data4*(1.0-ratio_ul+data5*ratio_ul)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1,the final filtering result is((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+datanatio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_l)+((data4*(1.0-ratio_ul)+data5*ratio_ul)*(1.0-ratio_vl)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_ul)+data7*ratio_ul)*ratio_vl)*ratiol; when mode is 3D, eight data are read from data buffer0 and databuffer1 in sequence at the same time, namely data 0, data 1, data 2,data 3, data 4, data 5, data 6, data 7, data 8, data 9, data 10, data11, data 12, data 13, data 14 and data 15; the intermediate result offiltering is first obtained from the first eight data and the firsteight data are data0, data1, data2, data3, data8, data9, data10, data11:((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+datanatio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+datanatio_u0)*ratio_v0,((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data 11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1, and the intermediateresult of filtering is then obtained through the last eight data and thelast eight data are data4, data5, data6, data7, data12, data13, data14,data15:((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0,((data12*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1; The final filtering result is:((((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+(((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0)*(1.0-ratio_l)+((((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*(1.0-ratio_w1)+(((data12*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*ratio_w1)*ratio_l,when anisotropic is enabled, data in the data buffer0 and data buffer1are subjected to anisotropic calculation to obtain the intermediateresults filtering of data 0 and data a1, and the final filtering resultis data 0*(1.0-ratio_l)+data1*ratio_l; when only level0 is valid andfilter_type is near or near_mipmap_near, whether mode is 1 D, 2D or 3D,data0 and data1 are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the sametime, and the data 0 and data1 are directly output without filteringafter being converted; if the filtering mode is BAF, when mode is 1 D,firstly, one data is sequentially read from data buffer0 and databuffer1 at the same time, respectively, data 0 and data 1, and the finalfiltering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data 2*ratio_u0; When mode is2D, data0, data1, data2 and data3 are sequentially read from databuffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, and the intermediate resultof filtering is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0 through the firsttwo data and the first two data are data0 and data2; then theintermediate result of filtering is obtained through the last two dataand the last two data are data1 and data3:data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0, and finally the final filteringresult isobtained:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_l)+(data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_l;when mode is 3D, data0, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6, data7are sequentially read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the sametime. The intermediate result of filtering is first obtained from thefirst four data: data0, data1, data4, data5:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0, and then the intermediate result of filtering is obtained from thelast four data: data2, data3, data6,data7:(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0; and the final filtering resultis((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+((data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0. After the filtering operation isperformed, the output results of filter are texel_r, texel_g, texel_band texel_a according to different inte_format formats, if format iscolor, when only r in inte_format has a value, texel_r is the filteringresult, texel_g and texel_b are both 0, and texel_a is 1; if format isdepth and stencil, at the moment, the result is assigned to the texel_r,texel_g, texel_b, texel_a components as 0 without performing theaddition of filtering.

The pixel unit U2 is configured to take the border_color data as theinput data for the pixel stage when border_color is enabled, and whenthe swizzle operation is not enabled, pixel_r, pixel_g, pixel_b andpixel_a are equal to border_color_r, border_color_g, border_color_b, andborder_color_a in border_color, if swizzle operation is enabled, therespective channel data are converted in the swizzle mode, and finally,4 paths of color components pixel_r, pixel_g, pixel_b and pixel_a areoutput in parallel.

Optionally, FP32, FP16, FP11, FP10 and INT32 data types in Color, depth,stencil and depth_stencil modes are supported.

Optionally, conversion of different reshaping, floating point type typesunder RGB/BGR format and different reshaping, floating point type typesunder RGBA/BGRA format is also supported.

Optionally, depth, stencil, depth_stencil comparison to depth textureand stencil index computation are also supported.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility modelare as follows.

Double Buffers are adopted to improve the calculation efficiency oftexture index addresses, and when two layers of data need to becalculated at the same time, calculation may be started in parallel atthe same time; and when one layer of enabled data needs to becalculated, the texels are indexed in parallel in an odd-even mode toguarantee data parallel calculation, so that the indexing time of thetexel data is shortened, and the texel calculation efficiency isimproved.

The double Buffers are adopted to improve the texel data calculationefficiency, and when two layers of data need to be calculated at thesame time, texels may be read out according to two respective pipelinesto achieve parallel calculation; and when one layer of enabled dataneeds to be calculated, a double Buffer mode is adopted for parallelaccess, so that the parallel access efficiency may be improved, and thetexel calculation time is shortened.

When the mipmap texture is enabled, if the calculation lod is the setmax_level, one of buffer pipeline address and data calculation isenabled, and trilinar is a bilinear filtering mode, so that thecalculation complexity is reduced, and the hardware calculation powerconsumption is reduced.

When the border value exists and (U, V) coordinates after the wrapoperation overflow, the user adopts border_color to set data, addressand data calculation is avoided, thus texture access time is saved, andtexture mapping calculation power consumption is reduced.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is design diagram of a texture mapping hardware accelerator basedon a dual Buffer architecture according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

FIG. 2 is a texture coordinate value map of 2D texture coordinates inbilienar mode according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a mapping relationship diagram of 3D texture coordinates inbilinear mode according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a correspondence relationship between textureaddresses and cache lines in dual operations according to an embodimentof the disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a computational model in 1D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of a computational model in 2D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram of a computational model in 3D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram of a computational model in 1D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a diagram of a computational model in 2D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a diagram of a computational model in 3D bilinear modeaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the disclosure will beclearly and completely described below in combination with the drawingsin the embodiments of the disclosure, and it is apparent that thedescribed embodiments are only a part rather all of embodiments of thedisclosure. All other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill inthe art based on the embodiments of the disclosure without creativeefforts shall fall within the protection scope of the embodiments of thedisclosure.

With reference to FIGS. 1-10, the disclosure provides a texture mappinghardware accelerator based on a double Buffer architecture, which maywell solve the problem of time process textures in texture addresscalculation and data calculation processes, and reduce filteringprocessing in different modes of color, depth and stencil in texturemaps. As shown in FIG. 1, a texture mapping hardware accelerator basedon a double Buffer architecture includes an address calculation U0 unit,an image unit U0 unit, an LOD U1 unit, a CoordinateU2 unit, a Coordinatecontroller U3 unit, an address controller U4 unit. The image unit U0 isconfigured to store basic information of image and store mode, width,height, depth, border, inte_format, format, type and base of thecorresponding image by taking target and different map layers asaddresses when mipmap texture is enabled; store mode, width, height,depth, border, inte_format, format, type and base values of thecorresponding layer by taking target and different layers as addresseswhen layers are enabled, and subdivide one address of a mipmap layerinto six sub-addresses representing different face information of 0, 1,2, 3, 4 and 5 when a cubemap is enabled. When the layers are enabledwithout map layer information, the mode, width, height, depth, border,inte_format, format and type of different layers are the same and thebase is different; when the layers are enabled and the map layers areenabled, the mode, width, height, depth, border, inte_format, format andtype are the same and base is different; and register configuration in1D, 2D, 3D, rectangle, cubemap, 1D_ARRAY, 2D_ARRAY, cubemap_array,2D_multisample, 2D_multisample, and 2D_multisample_array modes issupported.

The LOD U1 unit is configured to complete level value calculation underdifferent filtering modes and obtain an address for accessing an imageunit in combination with an access target address; before level valuecalculation, first, the basic information of the image needs to beobtained as a reference for the subsequent level calculation by takingtarget and base_level value as level0 for reading the image unit. Thenthe calculation of the level value takes into account two situations:when lod is enabled, if image is in layer mode, at the time, the widthand height information of the different layers are equal, regardless ofthe filtering mode being mag_filter or min_filter, the level valueclosest to the base_level direction is taken as level0 for reading theoffset of the information of the image, while the filter_type sizematches the requested filtering size; when lod is enabled, if image ismipmap mode, at the time, the width, height, depth of different layersare not equal, consider mag_filter to take the value closest tobase_level for reading offset of the information of image in near modeand linear mode, consider near, linear, near_mipmap_near,linear_mipmap_near to take the value least close to base_level forreading image in min_filter mode, while filter_type matches therequested filter mode, consider min_filter to take the two adjacentlayers for reading the offset of the information of image innear_mipmap_linear, linear_mipmap_linear mode, ratio_l is the fractionalpart of lod value minus level value, at the moment, the integer part oflod is level0, level0 plus 1 is level1, if the lod value is min_lod,then level0 is the same as level1, so fiter_type is filtering ofnear_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near, respectively. Similarly, whenthe partial derivative is enabled as the lod, according to the primitivetypes primitive, dux, duy, dvx, dvy, dwx, dwy, delt_x, delt_y passedfrom raster, two conditions including polygon/point and line areavailable, the lod of the polygon/point and line is calculatedrespectively, if the image is in the layer mode, at this time, the widthand height information of the different layers are equal, no matter thefiltering mode is mag_filter or min_filter, one level value closest tothe base_level direction is taken as level0 for reading the offset ofinformation of image, and the filter_type size matches the requestedfiltering size; if image is mipmap mode, at the time, the width, height,depth of different layers are not equal, consider mag_filter to take thevalue closest to base_level for reading information of image in nearmode and linear mode, consider near, linear, near_mipmap_near,linear_mipmap_near to take the value least close to base_level value forreading offset of image in min_filter mode, while filter_type matchesthe requested filtering mode, consider min_filter to take the twoadjacent layers for reading the offset of the information of the imagein near_mipmap_linear, linear_mipmap_linear mode, ratio l is thefractional part of lod value minus level value, at the moment, theinteger part of lod is level0, level0 plus 1 is level1, if the lod valueis min_lod, then level0 is the same as level1, so fiter_type isfiltering of near_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near, respectively. Iflevel O and level11 are enabled, the trilinear filtering mode isrealized, and the following trilinear filtering modes are available:trilinear isotropic (near_mipmap_linear, line_mipmap_linear), andtrilinear anisotropic; and if only level0 is valid, the followingfiltering modes are available: point isotropic (near, near_mipmap_near),bilinear isotropic (linear, linear_mipmap_near), and bilinearanisotropic.

The CoordinateU2 unit is configured to complete coordinate conversionand address conversion of s, t, r and q in the fetch and sampler modes.When cubemap_array is enabled, the Q coordinate at the moment is not 0and represents the layer line number, s, t and r represent the sizes inthe x, y and z directions respectively, and the s and t coordinates inthe plane coordinates are obtained through the mapping relation; whenthe rectangle mode is enabled, the s and t coordinates at the moment donot need to be subjected to unnormalization processing; if thecoordinates s, t and r exceed respective expression ranges, thecoordinates are constrained by adopting different wrap modes; whenlevel0 and the level1 are enabled, the respective width, height anddepth values of level0 and level1 are obtained from the image unit, therespective width, height and depth values are multiplied with s, t and rto obtain the normalized texture coordinates u0, v0 and w0 and u1, v1and w1, and when only level0 is valid, the width, height and depthvalues of the level0 are obtained from the image unit, and therespective width, height and depth values are multiplied with s, t and rto obtain the normalized texture coordinates u0, v0 and w0; and at themoment, ratio_u0, ratio_v0, ratio_w0 are fractional parts of u0, v0, w0,respectively, ratio_ul, ratio_vl, ratio_wl are fractional parts of ul,vl, wl, respectively, inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0 are integer parts of u0,v0, w0, respectively, and inte_ul, inte_vl, inte_wl are integer parts oful, vl, wl, respectively. When performing a wrap operation, if theborder in the image content is valid, and the address has overflow atthe moment, disable requests a texel at the moment, and border_colorvalue is enabled as input to the final pixel stage.

The coordinate controller U3 unit is configured to when level O andlevel1 are enabled, filter_type is point mode, and mode is 1 D, datawritten into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written intocoordinate bufferu1 is inte_u1; when mode is 2D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferv0 is inte_v0; data written into coordinate bufferu1 is inte_u1,and the integer part written into coordinate bufferv1 is inte_v1; whenmode is 3D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, datawritten into coordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0, data written intocoordinate bufferw0 is inte_w0, data written into coordinate bufferu1 isinte_u1, data written into coordinate bufferv1 is inte_v1, and datawritten into coordinate w1 is inte_w1; when filter_type is linear modeand mode is 1 D, data written into coordinate bufferu1 is inte_u1, anddata written into coordinate bufferu1O is inte_u1+1; data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0+1; when mode is 2D, 4 point coordinates around aretaken, as shown in FIG. 2, data written into coordinate bufferu0 andcoordinate bufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0),(inte_u0, inte_v0+1), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1) in sequence; data writteninto coordinate bufferul, coordinate bufferv1 are (inte_ul, inte_vl),(inte_ul+1, inte_vl), (inte_ul, inte_vl+1), (inte_ul+1, inte_vl+1) insequence; when mode is 3D, 8 point coordinates around are taken as shownin FIG. 3, data written into coordinate bufferu0, coordinate bufferv0,coordinate bufferw0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1,inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0+1), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0,inte_w0+1), (in_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0+1), and (in_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1) in sequence; data written into coordinate bufferu1,coordinate bufferv1, and coordinate bufferw1 are(inte_u1,inte_v1,inte_w1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1,inte_w1),(inte_u1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1),(inte_u1+1,intev1+1,inte_w1),(inte_u1,inte_v1,inte_w1+1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1,inte_w1+1),(inte_u1,inte_v1+1,intew1+1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1+1) in sequence; when level0 isenabled, filter_type is point mode, and mode is 1 D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0; when mode is 2D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferv0 is inte_v0; when mode is 3D, data written into coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0, data written into coordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0,and data written into coordinate bufferw0 is inte_w0; when filter_typeis linear mode and mode is 1 D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 isinte_u0, and data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0+1; whenmode is 2D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 and coordinatebufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0), (inte_u0,inte_v0+1), and (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1) in sequence; when mode is 3D,data written into coordinate bufferu0, coordinate bufferv0, andcoordinate bufferw0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1,inte_v0, inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0), (inte_u0, inte_v0, inte_w0+1), (inte_u0+1, inte_v0,inte_w0+1), (in_u0, inte_v0+1, inte_w0+1), and (in_u0+1, inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1) in sequence.

The address controller U4 unit is configured to firstly completecalculation from texture coordinates to texture offset addresses; whenlevel0 is valid, mode is 1D, the offset when the address calculation hasno overflow is size*u0; mode is 2D, and the offset when addresscalculation has no overflow is size*(width0*u0+v0); mode is 3D, theoffset when address calculation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0; the address for final access totexel cache is base0+offset; Then the number of addresses underdifferent inte_format conditions is obtained according to the alignmentmode of the end of the offset and a 4-byte, and the end data are storedin the offset0 buffer; due to the fact that level1 is invalid, whentexel cache is requested, according to a double-buffer operation mode,the odd number of addresses request the address of the texel cache toaccess the cache 0, the even number of addresses request the address oftexel cache to access the cache1, and thus parallel access of theaddresses is achieved. when level0 and level1 are both effective, modeis 1 D, the offset when address calculation has no overflow issize*u0,size*u1; mode is 2D, and the offset when address calculation hasno overflow is size*(width0*u0+v0),size*(width)*u1+v1); mode is 3D, theoffset when address computation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0,size*(width1*u1+v1)+w1*width1*height1;The address for final access to texel cache is base0+leve10 offset andbase1+level1 offset. At the moment, cache0 and cachel are requested inparallel. The texel cache U1 unit includes two caches which are directlyconnected, and indexes of cache lines where different texels are locatedand store and replace operations of the cache lines are completed. Whenlevel0 and level1 are valid at the same time, read operation requestsfor cache0 and cache) are completed in parallel, and when only level0 isvalid, odd cache line is stored in cache0 and even cache line is storedin cache1. The data controllerU2 unit includes a data controllerU0, afilterU1 unit, a pixel unit U2. Similar to address controller unit, thedata controllerU0 is configured to complete a splicing task of data froma cache line in combination with off0 and off1 according to differentinte_formats when level0 and level1 are valid at the same time to obtaintexture data corresponding to the texture address, write the respectivedata into data buffer0 and data buffer) at the same time, and store thedata of the respective level at the data buffer0 and the data buffer1respectively; when only level0 is valid, in the same way, data ofrespective cache lines are read out from cache0 and cache1 respectively,odd data and even data are obtained according to different inte_formatsand off0, the odd data and the even data are written into data buffer0and data buffer1 in a double mode, and at the moment, texel data of thesame level are stored in data buffer0 and data buffer1, as shown in FIG.4, read operation to cache is completed in clockwise direction. ThefilterU1 unit is configured to firstly complete interception operation,intercept r, g, b and a values with different bit widths for differentinte_formats, and then respectively perform filtering calculation in anindependent mode, and the interception method of the bit widths areexecuted according to different inte_formats. The filter unit supportsinte_format under OGL standard as color: r8_norm, r8_snorm, r8l, r8Ul,r3_g3_b2_norm (large, small end), rgba2_norm, rgba4 (large, small end),rgb5_a1_norm (large, small end), rgb4_norm, rgb5_norm, rgb565_norm(large, small end), r16_norm, r16_snorm, r16f, r16Ul, r16l, rg8_norm,rg8_snorm, rg8Ul, rg8l, srgb8 (non-linear), rgb8l, rgb8Ul, rgb8_snorm,rgb8_norm, rgb10_norm, rgb10_a2_norm (large, small end), rgb10_a2Ul(large, small end), srgb8_a8_norm (large, small end), rlff_glIf_b10f,rgb9_e5 (shared), rgba8_norm (large, small end), rgba8_snorm (large,small end), rgba8Ul (large, small end), rgba8l (large, small end), rg16,rg16_snorm, rg161, rg16Ul, rg16f,r32l,r32Ul and r32f. The filter unitsupports inte_format as depth and stencils: depth16, depth24, depth32,depth32f, stencil_indexl, stencil_index4, stencil_index8,stencil_index16, depth24_stencil8, and depth32f_stenci18. For twointeger data types (signed and unsigned) and four float data types(normalized, unnormalized, non-linear, shared data types), snorm, norm,srgb, and rgbae need to be subjected to filtering calculation underdifferent filter types before performing the filtering operation. Whenboth level0 and level1 are effective, filter_type is filtered by NAF(non-anisotropic) (near_mipmap_linear isotropic, linear mipmap_linearisotropic), BAF (bilinear-anisotropic) (invalid), TAF(trilinear-anisotropic), and filter_type is filtered by NAF(non-anisotropic) (near, near_mipmap_near, linear mipmap_near), BAF(bilinear anisotropic), TAF (trilinear-anisotropic) when level O isvalid and level1 is invalid. when level0 and level1 are both valid andfilter_type is TAF (near_mipmap_linear), whether mode is 1D, 2D and 3D,data0 and data1 are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the sametime, and the filtering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_1)+data1*ratio_1; ifthe filtering mode is TAF (line_mipmap_linear) and mode is 1D, first twodata are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time,respectively, data0, dataal and data2, data3, the intermediate result offiltering is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0, data1*(1.0-ratio_up+datanatio_u1, and the final filtering result is(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+(datanatio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+(data11.0-ratio_u1)+(datanatio_u1)*ratio_l,as shown in FIG. 8; if mode is 2D, data0, data1, data2, data3, data4,data5, data6 and data7 are sequentially read from data buffer0 and databuffer1 at the same time, and the intermediate result of filtering isobtained through the first four data and the first four data are data0,data2, data4 and data6: data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0,data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data6*ratio_u1; the intermediate result offiltering is then obtained through the last four data: datal, data3,data5, data7: data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0,data5*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1, and finally the final results oflevel0 and levell are obtained:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data)*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0*ratio_v0,(data4*(1.0-ratio_up+data5*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1,the final filtering result is ((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+((data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data5*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*ratio_l,as shown in FIG. 9; when mode is 3D, eight data are read from databuffer0 and data buffer1 in sequence at the same time, namely data 0,data 1, data 2, data 3, data 4, data 5, data 6, data 7, data 8, data 9,data 10, data 11, data 12, data 13, data 14 and data 15. Theintermediate result of filtering is first obtained from the first eightdata and the first eight data are data0, data1, data2, data3, data8,data9, data) °, data11:((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0,((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data 11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1, and the intermediateresult of filtering is then obtained through the last eight data and thelast eight data are data4, data5, data6, data7, data12, data13, data14,data15:((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0,((data12*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1; The final filtering result is:((((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+(((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+((((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*(1.0-ratio_w1)+(adata2*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data 13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u 1)*ratio_v1)*ratio_w1)*ratio_l, asshown in FIG. 10, when anisotropic is enabled,data in data buffer0 anddata buffer1 are subjected to anisotropic calculation to obtain theintermediate result of filtering of data 0 and data a1, and the finalfiltering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_l)+data1*ratio_1; when only level0is valid and filter_type is near or near_mipmap_near, whether mode is 1D, 2D or 3D, data0 and data1 are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1at the same time, and the data 0 and data1 are directly output withoutfiltering after being converted; if the filtering mode is BAF, when modeis 1 D, firstly, one data is sequentially read from data buffer0 anddata buffer1 at the same time, respectively data0 and data1, and thefinal filtering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0; when modeis 2D, data0, data1, data2 and data3 are sequentially read from databuffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, and the intermediate resultof filtering is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0 through the firsttwo data and the first two data are data0 and data2, as shown in FIG. 5;an intermediate result of filtering is obtained through the last twodata and the last two data are data1 and data3:data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0, and finally the filtering finalresult is obtained:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+(data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_1,as shown in FIG. 6; when the mode is 3D, four data, namely data0, data1,data2, data3, data4, data5, data6, data7, are sequentially read fromdata buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time. The intermediate resultof filtering is first obtained from the first four data: data0, data1,data4, data5:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0, and then the intermediate result of filtering is obtained from thelast four data: data2, data3, data6,data7:(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0; and the final filtering result is((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratiov0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+((data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0, as shown in FIG. 7. After thefiltering operation is performed, the output results of filter aretexel_r, texel_g, texel_b and texel_a according to different inte_formatformats, if format is color, when only r in inte_format has a value,texel_r is the filtering result, texel_g and texel_b are both 0, andtexel_a is 1; if format is depth and stencil, then the result isassigned to the texel_r and texel_g, and texel_b and texel_a are 0. Thepixel unit U2 is configured to take border_color data as the input datafor the pixel stage when border_color is enabled, and when swizzleoperation is not enabled, pixel_r, pixel_g, pixel_b and pixel_a areequal to border_color_r, border_color_g, border_color_b, andborder_color_a in border_color, if swizzle operation is enabled, therespective channel data are converted in the swizzle mode, and finallyfour paths of color components pixel_r,pixel_g,pixel_b,pixel_a areoutput in parallel.

While the present disclosure has been described hereinabove withreference to embodiments, various modifications may be made thereto andequivalents may substitute components thereof without departing from thescope of the present disclosure. In particular, as long as there is nostructural conflict, the various features of the disclosed embodimentsof the present disclosure may be combined with each other in any manner,and the case where these combinations are not exhaustively described inthis specification is merely for the sake of omitting space and savingresources.\ Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited to theparticular embodiments disclosed herein, but includes all claims fallingwithin the scope of the claims.

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A texture mapping hardware accelerator based on a double Bufferarchitecture, comprising: an Image U0 unit, configured to store basicinformation of image, store mode, width, height, depth, border,inte_format, format, type and base of the corresponding image by takingtarget and different map layers as addresses when mipmap texture isenabled, store mode, width, height, depth, border, inte_format, format,type and base values of the corresponding layer by taking target anddifferent layers as addresses when layers are enabled, and subdivide oneaddress of a mipmap layer into six sub-addresses representing differentface information of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 when cubemap is enabled; whenthe layers are enabled without map layer information, the mode, width,height, depth, border, inte_format, format and type of different layersare the same and the base is different; when layers are enabled and maplayers are enabled, mode, width, height, depth, border, inte_format,format and type are the same and base is different; registerconfiguration in 1D, 2D, 3D, rectangle, cubemap, 1D_ARRAY, 2D_ARRAY,cubemap_array, 2D_multisample, 2D_multisample, and 2D_multisample_arraymodes are supported; an LOD U1 unit, configured to complete level valuecalculations under different filtering modes and obtain an address foraccessing an image unit in combination with an address for accessingtarget; before level value calculation, first, the basic information ofimage needs to be obtained as a reference for the subsequent levelcalculation by taking target and base_level value as level0 for readingthe image unit, then the calculation of the level value takes intoaccount two situations: when lod is enabled, if image is in layer mode,at the moment, width and height information of different layers areequal, regardless of the filtering mode being mag_filter or min_filter,a level value closest to the base_level direction is taken as level0 forreading offset of the information of image, while the filter_type sizematches the requested filtering size; when lod is enabled, if image ismipmap mode, at the moment, width, height and depth of different layersare not equal, consider mag_filter to take a value closest to base_levelfor reading offset of the information of image in near mode and linearmode, consider near, linear, near_mipmap_near, and linear_mipmap_near totake a value least close to base_level value for reading offset of imagein min_filter mode, while filter_type matches the requested filteringmode, consider min_filter to take two adjacent layers for reading offsetof information of image in near_mipmap_linear, and linear_mipmap_linearmode, ratio_1 is the fractional part of the lod value minus the levelvalue, at the moment, the integer part of lod is level0 level0 plus 1 islevel1, if the lod value is min_lod, then level0 is the same as level1,so fiter_types are filtering of near_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near,respectively; similarly, when a partial derivative is enabled as lod,according to primitive types primitive, dux, duy, dvx, dvy, dwx, dwy,delt_x, delt_y passed from raster, two conditions includingpolygon/point and line are available, lod of polygon/point and line isobtained through calculating respectively, if image is in layer mode, atthe moment, width and height information of different layers are equal,no matter the filtering mode is mag_filter or min_filter, one levelvalue closest to the base_level direction is taken as level0 for readingoffset of information of image, and the filter_type size matches therequested filtering size; if image is in mipmap mode, at the moment,width, height and depth of different layers are not equal, considermag_filter to take the value closest to base_level for reading theoffset of information of image in near mode and linear mode, considernear, linear, near_mipmap_near, linear_mipmap_near to take the valueleast close to base_level for reading offset of image in min_filtermode, while filter_type matches the requested filtering mode, considermin_filter to take two adjacent layers for reading offset of informationof image in near_mipmap_linear, linear_mipmap_linear modes, ratio_1 isthe fractional part of the lod value minus the level value, the integerpart of lod is level0 level0 plus 1 is level1, if the lod value ismin_lod, then level0 is the same as level1, so fiter_type is filteringof near_mipmap_near and linear_mipmap_near, respectively; and if level0and level1 are enabled, the trilinear filtering mode is realized, thefollowing trilinear filtering modes are available: trilinear isotropic(near_mipmap_linear, line_mipmap_linear), trilinear anisotropic; if onlylevel0 is valid, only the following filtering modes are available: pointisotropic (near, near_mipmap_near), bilinear isotropic (linear,linear_mipmap_near), bilinear anisotropic. a CoordinateU2 unit,configured to complete coordinate conversion and address conversion ofs, t, r and q in fetch mode and sampler mode; when cubemap_array isenabled, the Q coordinate at the moment is not 0 and represents thelayer line number, s, t and r represent the sizes in the x, y and zdirections respectively, and s and t coordinates in the planecoordinates are obtained through the mapping relation; when therectangle mode is enabled, the s and t coordinates at the moment do notneed to be subjected to unnormalization processing; if the coordinatess, t and r exceed respective expression ranges, the coordinates areconstrained by adopting different wrap modes; when level0 and level1 areenabled, the respective width, height and depth values of level0 andlevel1 are obtained from the image unit, the respective width, heightand depth values are multiplied with s, t and r to obtain theunnormalized texture coordinates u0, v0, w0 and u1, v1, w1, and whenonly level0 is valid, the width, height and depth values of level0 areobtained from the image unit, the respective width, height and depthvalues are multiplied with s, t and r to obtain the unnormalized texturecoordinates u0, v0, w0; at the moment, ratio_u0, ratio_v0, ratio_w0 arefractional parts of u0, v0, w0, respectively, ratio_u1, ratio_v1,ratio_w1 are fractional parts of u1, v1, w1, respectively, inte_u0,inte_v0, inte_w0 are integer parts of u0, v0, w0, respectively, inte_u1,inte_v1, inte_w1 are integer parts of u1, v1, w1, respectively; when awrap operation is performed, if the borde value in the image content hasa value, and the address has overflow at the moment, disable requests atexel at the moment, and the border_color value is enabled as input tothe final pixel stage; a Coordinate controller U3 unit, configured towhen level0 and level1 are enabled, filter_type is point mode, and modeis 1D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and datawritten into coordinate bufferu1 is inte_u1; when mode is 2D, datawritten into coordinate bufferu0 is inteu0, and data written intocoordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0; data written into coordinate bufferu1 isinte_u1, and the integer part written into coordinate bufferv1 isinte_v1; when mode is 3D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 isinte_u0, data written into coordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0, data writteninto coordinate bufferw0 is inte_w0, data written into coordinatebufferu1 is inte_u1, data written into coordinate bufferv1 is inte_v1,and data written into coordinate w1 is inte_w1; when filter_type islinear mode and mode is 1D, data written into coordinate bufferu1 isinte_u1, and data written into coordinate bufferu1 is inte_u1+1; datawritten into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written intocoordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0+1; when mode is 2D, data written tocoordinate bufferu0 and coordinate bufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0),(inte_u0+1, inte_v0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1), and (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1)in sequence; data written into coordinate bufferu1, coordinate bufferv1are (inte_u1, inte_v1), (inte_u1+1, inte_v1), (inte_u1, inte_v1+1), and(inte_u1+1, inte_v1+1) in sequence; when mode is 3D, data written intocoordinate bufferu0, coordinate bufferv0, and coordinate bufferw0 are(inte_u0,inte_v0,inte_w0),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0,inte_w0),(inte_u0,inte_v0+1,inte_w0),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0+1,inte_w0),(inte_u0,inte_v0,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0,inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1)in order; data written into coordinate bufferu1, coordinate bufferv1,coordinate bufferw1 are(inte_u1,inte_v1,inte_w1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1,inte_w1),(inte_u1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1),(inte_u1,inte_v1,inte_w1+1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1,inte_w1+1),(inte_u1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1+1),(inte_u1+1,inte_v1+1,inte_w1+1)in order; when level0 is enabled, filter_type is point mode, and mode is1D, and data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0; when mode is2D, data written into coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data writteninto the coordinate bufferv0 is inte_v0; when mode is 3D, data writteninto coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, data written into coordinatebufferv0 is inte_v0, and data written into coordinate bufferw0 isinte_w0; when filter_type is linear mode and mode is 1D, data writteninto coordinate bufferu0 is inte_u0, and data written into coordinatebufferu0 is inte_u0+1; when mode is 2D, data written into coordinatebufferu0 and coordinate bufferv0 are (inte_u0, inte_v0), (inte_u0+1,inte_v0), (inte_u0, inte_v0+1), and (inte_u0+1, inte_v0+1) in sequence;when mode is 3D, data written into coordinate bufferu0, coordinatebufferv0, and coordinate bufferw0 are(inte_u0,inte_v0,inte_w0),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0,inte_w0),(inte_u0,inte_v0+1,inte_w0),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0+1,inte_w0),(inte_u0,inte_v0,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0,inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1),(inte_u0+1,inte_v0+1,inte_w0+1)in sequence; and an address controller U4 unit, configured to firstlycomplete calculation from texture coordinates to texture offsetaddresses; when level0 is valid, mode is 1D, a offset when addresscalculation has no overflow is size*u0; mode is 2D, and the offset whenaddress calculation has no overflow is size*(width0*u0+v0); mode is 3D,the offset when address calculation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0; an address for final access totexel cache is base0+offset; the number of addresses under differentinte_format conditions are obtained according to an alignment mode ofthe end of the offset and a 4-byte, and end data are stored in offset0buffer; due to fact that level1 is invalid, when texel cache isrequested, according to a double-buffer operation mode, the odd numberof addresses request an address of the texel cache to access cache0, andthe even number of addresses request an address of texel cache to accessthe cache1, and parallel access of the addresses is achieved; whenlevel0 and level1 are both effective, mode is 1D, the offset whenaddress calculation has no overflow is size*u0,size*u1; mode is 2D, andthe offs et when address calculation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0),size*(width1*u1+v1); mode is 3D, the offs et whenaddress computation has no overflow issize*(width0*u0+v0)+w0*width0*height0,size*(width1*u1+v1)+w1*width1*height1;the address for final access to texel cache is base0+level0 offset andbase1+level1 offset; and at the moment, cache0 and cache1 are requestedin parallel.
 2. The texture mapping hardware accelerator based on thedouble Buffer according to claim 1, wherein the LOD U1 unit comprisestwo directly connected caches, and indexes of cache lines wheredifferent texels are located and store and replace operations of thecache lines are completed; when level0 and level1 are valid at the sametime, read operation requests for cache0 and cache1 are completed inparallel, and when only level0 is valid, odd cache line is stored incache0, and even cache line is stored in cache1.
 3. The texture mappinghardware accelerator based on the double Buffer according to claim 1,wherein the CoordinateU2 comprises: a data controllerU0 unit, configuredto complete a splicing task of data from a cache line in combinationwith off0 and off1 according to different inte_formats when level0 andlevel1 are valid at the same time to obtain texture data correspondingto the texture address, write the respective data into data buffer0 anddata buffer1 at the same time, and store the data of the respectivelevel at the data buffer0 and the data buffer1 respectively; when onlylevel0 is valid, in the same way, data of respective cache lines areread out from cache0 and cache1 respectively, odd data and even data areobtained according to different inte_format and off0, the odd data andthe even data are written into data buffer0 and data buffer1 in a doublemode, and at the moment, texel data of the same level are stored in databuffer0 and data buffer1; a filterU1 unit, configured to firstlycomplete interception operation, intercept r, g, b and a values withdifferent bit widths for different inte_formats, and then respectivelyperform filtering calculation in an independent mode, and theinterception method of the bit widths is executed according to differentinte_formats; when both level0 and level1 are effective, filter_type isfiltering of NAF (non-anisotropic) (near_mipmap_linear isotropic, linearmipmap_linear isotropic), BAF (bilinear-anisotropic) (invalid), and TAF(trilinear-anisotropic), and filtering_type is filtering of NAF(non-anisotropic) (near, near mipmap_near, linear_mipmap_near), BAF(bilinear anisotropic), and TAF (trilinear-anisotropic) (invalid) whenlevel0 is valid and level1 is invalid; when level0 and level1 are validat the same time and filter_type is TAF (near_mipmap_linear), whethermode is 1D, 2D and 3D, data0 and data1 are read from data buffer0 anddata buffer1 at the same time, and the filtering result isdata0*(1.0-ratio_1)+data1*ratio_1; if the filtering mode is TAF(line_mipmap_linear) and mode is 1D, first two data are read from databuffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, respectively, data0, data1and data2, data3, the intermediate result of filtering isdata0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0,data1*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data3*ratio_u1, and a final filtering result is(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+(data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+(data1*1.0-ratio_u1)+(data3*ratio_u1)*ratio_1;mode is 2D, data0, data1, data2, data3, and data4, data5, data6, data7are sequentially read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the sametime, and then an intermediate result of filtering is obtained throughthe first four data and the first four data are data0, data2, data4 anddata6: data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0,data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data6*ratio_u1; the intermediate result offiltering is then obtained through the last four data: data1, data3,data5, data7: data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0,data5*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1, and finally the final results oflevel0 and level1 are obtained:(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratiov_O)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0*ratio_v0,(data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data5*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1,and the final filtering result is((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+((data4*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data5*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data7*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*ratio1; mode is 3D, eight data are read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 insequence at the same time, respectively, data 0, data 1, data 2, data 3,data 4, data 5, data 6, data 7, data 8, data 9, data 10, data 11, data12, data 13, data 14 and data 15; an intermediate result of filtering isfirst obtained from the first eight data and the first eight data aredata0, data1, data2, data3, data8, data9, data10,data11:((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0,((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1,the intermediate result of filtering is then obtained through the lasteight data and the last eight data are data4, data5, data6, data7,data12, data13, data14, data15:((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0((data12*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1; a final filtering result is((((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+(((data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+((data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+((((data8*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data9*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data10*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data11*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*(1.0-ratio_w1)+(((data12*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data13*ratio_u1)*(1.0-ratio_v1)+((data14*(1.0-ratio_u1)+data15*ratio_u1)*ratio_v1)*ratio_w1)*ratio_1,and when anisotropic is enabled, data in data buffer0 and data buffer1are respectively subjected to anisotropic calculation to obtain theintermediate results of filtering of data0 and data1, and a finalfiltering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_1)+data1*ratio_1; when only level0is valid and filter_type is near or near mipmap near, whether mode is1D, 2D or 3D, data data0 and data1 are read from data buffer0 and databuffer1 at the same time, and the data0 and data1 are directly outputwithout filtering after being converted; if the filtering mode is BAF,when mode is 1D, firstly, one data is sequentially read from databuffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, respectively data0 and data1,and a final filtering result is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0;when mode is 2D, data0, data1, data2 and data3 are sequentially readfrom data buffer0 and data buffer1 at the same time, and theintermediate result of filtering is data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0through the first two data and the first two data are data0 and data2;then the intermediate result of filtering is obtained through the lasttwo data and the last two data are data1 and data3:data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0, and finally a final filteringresult is(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data2*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_1)+(data1*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*ratio_1;when the mode is 3D, data0, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6,data7 are sequentially read from data buffer0 and data buffer1 at thesame time; the intermediate result of filtering is first obtainedthrough the first four data and the first four data aredata0,data1,data4,data5 as(data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0,then the intermediate result of filtering is obtained through the lastfour data include data2,data3,data6,data7:(data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0;finally a final filtering result is obtained:((data0*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data1*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data4*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data5*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*(1.0-ratio_w0)+((data2*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data3*ratio_u0)*(1.0-ratio_v0)+(data6*(1.0-ratio_u0)+data7*ratio_u0)*ratio_v0)*ratio_w0;after the filtering operation is performed, the output results of filterare texel_r, texel_g, texel_b and texel_a according to differentinte_format formats, if format is color, when only r in inte_format hasa value, texel_r is a filtering result, texelg and texel_b are both 0,and texel_a is 1; if format is depth, stencil, then the result isassigned to texel_r and texel_g, and texel_b and texel_a are 0; and apixel unit U2, configured to take the border_color data as the inputdata for the pixel stag when border_color is enabled, and when theswizzle operation is not enabled, pixel r, pixel g, pixel b, pixel a areequal to border_color_r, border_color_g, border_color_b, border_color_ain border_color, if swizzle operation is enabled, the respective channeldata are converted in the swizzle mode, and finally, 4 paths of colorcomponents pixel_r, pixel_g, pixel_b, pixel_a are output in parallel. 4.The texture mapping hardware accelerator based on the double Bufferaccording to claim 3, wherein FP32, FP16, FP11, FP10, INT32 data typesin Color, depth, stencil, depth_stencil modes are supported.
 5. Thetexture mapping hardware accelerator based on the double Bufferaccording to claim 3, wherein conversion of different reshaping,floating point type types under RGB/BGR format and different reshaping,floating point, type types tinder RGBA/BGRA format is also supported. 6.The texture mapping hardware accelerator based on the double Bufferaccording to claim 3, wherein comparison to depth texture of depth,stencil, and depth_stencil and stencil index computation are alsosupported.